The graph depicts the number of overnight visitors to Yosemite National Park in the United States from 2013 to 2019. In 2019, there were almost 57 and a half thousand overnight visitors to Yosemite, up from the previous year's figure of over 51 thousand.

Yosemite National Park, located in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, accounted for a total of around 4.4 million visitors in 2019.

In 2023, Yosemite National Park welcomed a total of 3.9 million visitors. This was an increase from the previous year when the park had 3.67 million visitors. However, the 2023 figure was still lower than the visitation rates experienced before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, when over four million visitors passed through Yosemite's gates between 2015 and 2019. Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park is a large national forest located in central California. It was founded in 1864 and boasts over 1,200 square miles of vast wilderness, glaciers and winter sports. The park is known for the famous El Capitan rock formation that is popular among climbers around the world. Yosemite is among the most visited national parks in the U.S. with other big names such as Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Zion National Park. Looking at attendance at park attractions and similar sites in the United States, national parks attracted the largest number of visitors in 2021. Climbing and Hiking in the U.S. Rock climbing and hiking is a popular past time at parks like Yosemite. Hiking and climbing have been increasing in popularity across the United States. In 2021, the number of people participating in hiking in the U.S. reached an all-time high of 57.81 million individuals. In 2021, running, jogging, and trail running was the only outdoor activity more popular than hiking in the U.S..

National Park Service vistor numbers reflecting a total of 327.5 million - the third highest visitation since record keeping began in 1904. This includes each park tracked by NPS -- 379 out of the 419 total park units.

This dataset is used for the analysis in the publication entitled "Using data derived from cellular device locations to estimate visitation to natural areas: an application to the U.S. National Park system". It includes cell data purchased from Airsage Inc. at the monthly resolution for years 2018 and 2019 for 38 park units in the U.S. National Park system, corresponding monthly visitation obtained from the NPS Stats (https://irma.nps.gov/STATS/), and park attributes that are considered to affect the relationships between Cell and NPS data in the analysis.

In 2021, July was the busiest month for National Park Service sites in the United States. That month, national sites attracted about *** million visitors per day, denoting a ** percent increase in the average daily number of people going to sites over the same month in the previous year.

Attendance data for national parks and historic sites - 2019-20

Annual visitation statistics for national parks and national historic sites in Canada.

Glacier National Park in the United States attracted over 3.2 million visitors in 2024. This figure shows a slight increase from the previous year's value of 2.93 million.

Understanding human use of public lands is essential for management of natural and cultural resources. However, compiling consistently reliable visitation data across large spatial and temporal scales and across different land managing entities is challenging. Cellular device locations have been demonstrated as a source to map human activity patterns and may offer a viable solution to overcome some of the challenges that traditional on-the-ground visitation counts face on public lands. Yet, large-scale applicability of human mobility data derived from cell phone device locations for estimating visitation counts to public lands remains unclear. This study aims to address this knowledge gap by examining the efficacy and limitations of using commercially available cellular data to estimate visitation to public lands. We used the United States’ National Park Service’s (NPS) 2018 and 2019 monthly visitor use counts as a ground-truth and developed visitation models using cellular device location-derived monthly visitor counts as a predictor variable. Other covariates, including park unit type, porousness, and park setting (i.e., urban vs. non-urban, iconic vs. local), were included in the model to examine the impact of park attributes on the relationship between NPS and cell phone-derived counts. We applied Pearson’s correlation and generalized linear mixed model with adjustment of month and accounting for potential clustering by the individual park units to evaluate the reliability of using cell data to estimate visitation counts. Of the 38 parks in our study, 20 parks had a correlation of greater than 0.8 between monthly NPS and cell data counts and 8 parks had a correlation of less than 0.5. Regression modeling showed that the cell data could explain a great amount of the variability (conditional R-squared = 0.96) of NPS counts. However, these relationships varied across parks, with better associations generally observed for iconic parks. While our study increased our confidence in using cell phone data to estimate visitation, we also became aware of some of the limitations and challenges which we present in the Discussion.

The estimated number of foreign tourists visiting national parks in Japan amounted to approximately *** million in 2019, indicating a decline for the first time in the last five years. That year, Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park was estimated to be visited by the highest number of foreign tourists, with over ***** million visitors.

The number of visitors to Colombia's national parks increased to nearly *** million in 2024, after having plummeted climbed to nearly *** million in the previous year. The highest visitor number recorded in Colombian national parks in the recent years was in 2019.

Daily visitor use in Rocky Mountain National Park has increased substantially since 2014, raising questions about the impact of human waste on water quality in popular areas without latrines. Human urine contributes nitrogen, and the ecological and biogeochemical effects of nitrogen from atmospheric deposition have long been the topic of study in Loch Vale watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park. Nitrogen from atmospheric deposition has been found previously to lead to lake eutrophication and altered algal species assemblages. Our data were collected to evaluate the impacts of visitors to a popular alpine watershed in Rocky Mountain National Park. There are three separate data files: soil sample locations and concentrations of nitrate, ammonium, and caffeine (used as a marker of human waste) for May-September 2019; surface water sample locations and concentrations of nitrate, ammonium, and caffeine (used as a marker of human waste) for May-September 2019; and trail count data for June-September 2019 and 2020. The study was conducted by USGS and Rocky Mountain National Park researchers and yielded results regarding the nitrogen input (which was calculated as 2% of total annual N inputs) and also revealed information on visitor behavior, namely that many visitors do not follow standard Leave No Trace guidelines for locating privy sites 200 feet or more from a water body.

In 2024, Yosemite National Park welcomed a total of 4.1 million visitors. This was an increase from the previous year, when the park had 3.9 million visitors. Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park is a large national forest located in central California. It was founded in 1864 and boasts over 1,200 square miles of vast wilderness, glaciers and winter sports. The park is known for the famous El Capitan rock formation that is popular among climbers around the world. Yosemite is among the most visited national parks in the U.S. with other big names such as Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Zion National Park. Looking at attendance at park attractions and similar sites in the United States, national parks attracted the largest number of visitors in 2023. Climbing and Hiking in the U.S. Rock climbing and hiking is a popular pastime at parks like Yosemite. Hiking and climbing have been increasing in popularity across the United States. In 2024, the number of people participating in hiking in the U.S. reached an all-time high of 63.4 million individuals. Moreover, hiking was also the most popular outdoor activity in the U.S. followed by fishing in 2023.

This dataset records attendance data for national parks and historic sites in Canada in 2019-20.

This statistic shows the number of visitors to national parks and historic sites in Saskatchewan, Canada from 2010/11 to 2018/19. The number of visitors to national parks, reserves and NMCAs in Saskatchewan amounted to 286,017 in 2018/19.

Supplementary data for matrix of Pearson’s correlations between detrended seasonal visitation and seasonal drought indices during 1980–2019.

Understanding human use of public lands is essential for management of natural and cultural resources. However, compiling consistently reliable visitation data across large spatial and temporal scales and across different land managing entities is challenging. Cellular device locations have been demonstrated as a source to map human activity patterns and may offer a viable solution to overcome some of the challenges that traditional on-the-ground visitation counts face on public lands. Yet, large-scale applicability of human mobility data derived from cell phone device locations for estimating visitation counts to public lands remains unclear. This study aims to address this knowledge gap by examining the efficacy and limitations of using commercially available cellular data to estimate visitation to public lands. We used the United States’ National Park Service’s (NPS) 2018 and 2019 monthly visitor use counts as a ground-truth and developed visitation models using cellular device location-derived monthly visitor counts as a predictor variable. Other covariates, including park unit type, porousness, and park setting (i.e., urban vs. non-urban, iconic vs. local), were included in the model to examine the impact of park attributes on the relationship between NPS and cell phone-derived counts. We applied Pearson’s correlation and generalized linear mixed model with adjustment of month and accounting for potential clustering by the individual park units to evaluate the reliability of using cell data to estimate visitation counts. Of the 38 parks in our study, 20 parks had a correlation of greater than 0.8 between monthly NPS and cell data counts and 8 parks had a correlation of less than 0.5. Regression modeling showed that the cell data could explain a great amount of the variability (conditional R-squared = 0.96) of NPS counts. However, these relationships varied across parks, with better associations generally observed for iconic parks. While our study increased our confidence in using cell phone data to estimate visitation, we also became aware of some of the limitations and challenges which we present in the Discussion.

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Recreational and sports activities are steadily increasing in scenically attractive areas with high natural value. The high number of visitors in large protected areas not only leads to numerous conflicts between visitors, but also has an enormous impact on the life of wildlife. Recovery seekers are generally very unaware of their effects on wildlife. In the summer of 2019, 250 visitors to the Gesäuse National Park were interviewed about their awareness of disturbances in wildlife. The influence of the natural spaces on the health well-being of those seeking relaxation in the Gesäuse National Park was also investigated. 65 % of people surveyed in the Gesäuse National Park were aware that wildlife is generally disturbed by recreational activities of visitors to the Gesäuse National Park; however, only 15 percent of people surveyed thought that they were disturbed by their own recreational activity on the day of the survey. or had troubled. The activities of dogs without a leash, walking away from the paths, and forest work were evaluated by the persons surveyed with the greatest impact. The age and professional activity of the respondents were factors that had a significant impact on disorder awareness. The health condition as well as the stress level of the surveyed visitors were significantly affected by their stay in the Gesäuse National Park. improved. Awareness-raising and communication measures are proposed in order to minimise the impact of leisure activities and to increase the understanding of national park visitors for these measures in order to facilitate their behaviour. adapting.

Attendance data for national parks and historic sites - 2019-20